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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Ali Velshi: Donald Trump's trade rhetoric is not only outdated, it's divorced from reality

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Conservatives slam Donald Trump’s tariffs as unconstitutional. Also, tourism from nations hit by Trump’s tariffs plummets. Plus, while leaving his White House role Elon Musk dodged a question about a New York Times reports on his alleged drug use on the campaign trail. And Trump pardons criminals convicted of tax and fraud crimes. Jared Bernstein, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and Brendan Ballou join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

The last word with Ali Velshi hosting starts right now. Hey, Allie. It's a great story.

0:06.4

And it's important that we know about this because he did this with the, with the head of the Library of Congress.

0:12.5

Yes. You know, this excuse, everything, the excuse is all the same. It's promoting DEI or whatever the case is.

0:19.2

There's not performance issues. These are not people who have failed in their jobs.

0:22.8

It's just if you like diversity or you think diversity is a value,

0:26.9

not going to be in this administration in any fashion.

0:30.0

These are museums, as you will know, in our nation's capital, that are free

0:33.9

and supposed to represent the country that they are living in.

0:38.3

So all of these initiatives are great.

0:41.0

Yeah.

0:41.6

But we're going to invent a fake country in which we're not fully represented after all these years of trying to make sure everybody is.

0:48.0

That's where we're headed.

0:48.9

But thank you, my friend.

0:49.7

You have a great weekend.

0:50.9

Have a good night.

0:51.8

Have a good show.

0:52.4

See you next week.

0:55.1

Well, good evening to you.

0:58.8

Tonight, Donald Trump took to social media at 8.09 a.m.

1:03.5

to publicly lash out against China after a rollercoaster a few days for Trump's illegal tariffs that were first blocked, then they were confirmed blocked by a federal court,

1:08.3

then they were temporarily reinstated.

1:10.5

Donald Trump accused China

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